While English speakers familiar with Dora the Explorer will know that during her adventures she (and the children watching) learns basic Spanish words and phrases. However, since Dora has since become a household name, there have been many foreign adaptations made – including Arabic, Japanese, Hebrew, Malay and Tamil. Each different adaptation has a different bilingual element – for example, the Arabic version teaches English, while the Serbian version teaches Spanish. However, most foreign versions teach English, both because the original was a US series and the fact that English is considered (unofficially) the world’s lingua franca.